She was subsequently imprisoned four times, including once in Walton gaol in Liverpool under the nom de guerre of Jane Warton, where she was force fed while on hunger strike. She chose the alias and disguise of Jane Warton, an 'ugly London seamstress', to avoid receiving special treatment and privileges because of her family connections: she was the daughter of a viceroy and the sister of a member of the House of Lords. She wrote pamphlets on women's rights, articles in The Times newspaper, and a book on her experiences Prisons and Prisoners which was published in 1914.

She was subsequently imprisoned four times, including once in Walton gaol in Liverpool under the nom de guerre of Jane Warton, where she was force fed while on hunger strike. She chose the alias and disguise of Jane Warton, an 'ugly London seamstress', to avoid receiving special treatment and privileges because of her family connections: she was the daughter of a viceroy and the sister of a member of the House of Lords. She wrote pamphlets on women's rights, articles in The Times newspaper, and a book on her experiences Prisons and Prisoners which was published in 1914.

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In October 1909, the aristocratic suffragette LadyConstanceLytton was arrested and sent to Newcastle prison ...Working-class women – as ConstanceLytton’s experiment exposed – were treated differently, and had more to lose, in prison and after their release....

Marie Stopes in her laboratory. Wikimedia Commons. Marie Stopes was a distinguished academic scientist and became the youngest doctor of science in Britain ... In this way, Married Love led Stopes, with the support of leading suffragists such as LadyConstanceLytton , to become the country’s leading birth control pioneer in the 1920s....

LadyConstanceLytton (centre) and fellow suffragette LeslieLawless (right) at a demonstration outside Bow police station, date unknown ... But LadyConstanceLytton, who was upper-class, became suspicious of this claim when she was released from NewcastlePrison in October 1909 after only two days – and, most notably, without being forcibly fed....

LadyConstanceLytton and her great-great-great niece MorwennaLytton-Cobbold, 28. LadyConstance was a suffragette of the most hard-core variety, with some truly blue blood flowing through her veins ...LadyConstanceLytton (right) pictured during Suffragette Procession in London in 1909 and her great-great niece Morwenna Lytton-Cobbold (left) 28....

... prime minister; her grandmother LadyBetty (nee Bulwer-Lytton) was a leading moderate suffragist; and her great-aunt was the more militant suffragist LadyConstanceLytton, who was imprisoned several times....

LadyRuth, ... However LadyBetty's sister, Balfour-Fraser's great aunt, had other ideas. LadyConstanceLytton, well-known in the Women's Social and Political Union, was jailed several times for breaking windows and suffered the ordeal of forced feeding on a number of occasions....